"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. "--Anouk Aimee

" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. "--Thomas B. Aldrich

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. "--Henri Frederic Amiel

"Age is a number and mine is unlisted. "-- Anonymous

"Here's a birthday spanking, Sent you on a card, One, Two, Three, Put them right on hard, Four, Five, Six One to live on, one to grow on, One to make you fat. "--Anonymous

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."-- Susan B. Anthony

"Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age."-- Richard Armour